Take a calf's head, wash it well, lay it in an earthen dish, and cut
out the tongue lay it loose under the head in the dish with the brains,
and a little sage and parsley; rub the head over with the yolk of an
egg, then strew over them a few bread-crumbs and shred parsley, lay all
over it lumps of butter and a little salt, then set it in the oven; it
will take about an hour and a half baking; when it is enough take the
brains, sage and parsley; and chop them together, put to them the gravy
that is in the dish, a little butter and a spoonful of vinegar, so boil
it up and put it in cups, and set them round the head upon the dish,
take the tongue and blanch it, cut it in two, and lay it on each side
the head, and some slices of crisp bacon over the head, so serve it up.

42. SAUCE for a NECK of VEAL.

Fry your veal, and when fried put in a little water, an anchovy, a few
sweet herbs, a little onion, nutmeg, a little lemon-peel shred small,
and a little white wine or ale, then shake it up with a little butter
and flour, with some cockles and capers.

43. To boil a LEG of LAMB, with the LOYN fry'd about it.

When your lamb is boil'd lay it in the dish, and pour upon it a little
parsley, butter and green gooseberries coddled, then lay your fried
lamb round it; take some small asparagus and cut it small like peas,
and boil it green; when it is boil'd drain it in a cullender, and lay
it round your lamb in spoonfuls.

Garnish your dish with gooseberries, and heads of asparagus in lumps.

This is proper for a bottom dish.

44. A LEG of LAMB boil'd with CHICKENS round it.

When your lamb is boil'd pour over it parsley and butter, with coddled
gooseberries, so lay the chickens round your lamb, and pour over the
chickens a little white fricassy sauce. Garnish your dish with sippets
and lemon.

This is proper for a top dish.

45. A Fricassy of LAMB white.

Take a leg of lamb, half roast it, when it is cold cut it in slices,
put it into a stew-pan with a little white gravy, a shalot shred fine,
a little nutmeg, salt, and a few shred capers; let it boil over the
stove whilst the lamb is enough; to thicken your sauce, take three
spoonfuls of cream, the yolks of two eggs, a little shred parsley, and
beat them well together, then put it into your stew-pan and shake it
whilst it is thick, but don't let it boil; if this do not make it
thick, put in a little flour and butter, so serve it up. Garnish your
dish with mushrooms, oysters and lemon.

46. A brown Fricassy of LAMB.

Take a leg of lamb, cut it in thin slices and season it with pepper and
salt, then fry it brown with butter, when it is fried put it into your
stew-pan, with a little brown gravy, an anchovy, a spoonful or two of
white wine or claret, grate in a little nutmeg, and set it over the
stove; thicken your sauce with flour and butter. Garnish your dish with
mushrooms, oysters and lemon.

47. To make PIG eat like LAMB in Winter.

Take a pig about a month old and dress it, lay it down to the fire,
when the skin begins to harden you must take it off by pieces, and when
you have taken all the skin off, draw it and when it is cold cut it in
quarters and lard it with parsley; then roast it for use.

48. How to stew a HARE.

Take a young hare, wash and wipe it well, cut the legs into two or
three pieces, and all the other parts the same bigness, beat them all
flat with a paste-pin, season it with nutmeg and salt, then flour it
over, and fry it in butter over a quick fire; when you have fried it
put into a stew-pan, with about a pint of gravy, two or three spoonfuls
of claret and a small anchovy, so shake it up with butter and flour,
(you must not let it boil in the stew-pan, for it will make it cut
hard) then serve it up. Garnish your dish with crisp parsley.

49. How to Jug a HARE.

Take a young hare, cut her in pieces as you did for stewing, and beat
it well, season it with the same seasoning you did before, put it into
a pitcher or any other close pot, with half a pound of butter, set it
in a pot of boiling water, stop up the pitcher close with a cloth, and
lay upon it some weight for fear it should fall on one side; it will
take about two hours in stewing; mind your pot be full of water, and
keep it boiling all the time; when it is enough take the gravy from it,
clear off the fat, and put her into your gravy in a stew-pan, with a
spoonful or two of white wine, a little juice of lemon, shred
lemon-peel and mace; you must thicken it up as you would a white
fricassy.